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Hard drive light allways flashing need help

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VVega77

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I have a western digital 80gig special edition 8mb buffer and windows xp pro. Did a clean install of OS and I cant get my hd light to stop flashing it flashes once every second when im not even doing anything please help. Thanks
 
it's normal. windows is probably flushing stuff to pagefile. it's weird like that.
 
i remember when windows 95 first came out. many were wondering why is my hdd light on the chasis flshing in a repetitive interval? come to find out it was auto start. it could be somthing else, but windows does poll the cd-rom/dvd devices and this will be noticed by watching the hdd led on the chasis. you can right click on the cd-rom/dvd device and remove this, but your cd will not load a menu when you insert them. you will have to manually navigate or invoke what you want on that cd-rom.
 
On some motherboards, the HDD Activity light is actually a 'system activity' light - and it will flash even when your ethernet card processes a packet. See if the light stops flashing when you unplug from the internet.

Caleb
 
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